Since the time was blocked off on everyone’s calendars (and since we hadn’t met in a while), group members participated in a round robin. Below is a summary of the updates. Errors and misunderstandings on my part may be corrected in the comments below and I’ll do my best to update the post.

ORCHiD

Andrea Morrison reported seeing more and more ORCiD identifiers in Library of Congress Name Authority File (NAF) records

Browse Functionality in Progress for IUCAT

Rachael Cohen reported on the progress to implement browse for IUCAT

Working from code developed by Cornell (they also use Blacklight for their discovery layer)

Development team will start with author browse, then tackle Kinsey subject headings, then Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

Spencer Anspach clarified how browse will work:

Authorized access points in bibliographical records will be hyperlinked

Browse results will display all access points (authorized and unauthorized) that appear in bibliographic records–all results will have a number next to it, denoting how many times that access point is used in the bibliographic records database; some access points will have an icon next to them, which will denote that the access point is the authorized version (NAF, etc.)

Clicking on the icon will take a user to the authority record for that authorized access point (MARC 670 fields will NOT display to users)

Clicking on any of the access points will conduct a search on that access point

Concerns: batch loaded records from vendors (we won’t mention names) do not have authority control; one vendor in particular never includes dates (MARC subfield d) in authorized access points–this will certainly have an adverse impact on browse!

Shelf ready materials often do not have authority control–those errors are picked up in post-cataloging, by the Database Management team